South Florida Crime

OAKLAND PARK (CBS4) – Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators say a deputy was forced to open fire on a man who walked into a crowded pool area of an apartment complex with a rifle and refused to drop it.

The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon on the 5200 block of North Dixie Highway at the Green Tree Apartments.

According to BSO Sheriff Scott Israel, the subject was carrying a rifle as he walked into an apartment complex. At least two people called 911 reporting seeing the man carrying the weapon on Dixie Highway near Commercial Boulevard.

A deputy arrived on the scene and told the man to drop the weapon. Israel said the man turned toward the deputy instead, and the deputy opened fire.

“The subject turned towards one of our deputies and pointed the rifle,” Israel said. “Our deputy fired at the subject.”

BSO said the man was transported to Broward Health Medical Center where he later died.

Bella Needleman, 11, was playing in the pool and watched the confrontation between a man with a rifle and Broward Sheriff’s deputies.